Inhibition of caspase mediated apoptosis restores muscle function after crush injury in rat skeletal muscle

Although muscle regeneration after injury is accompanied by apoptotic cell death, prolonged apoptosis inhibits muscle restoration. The goal of our study was to provide evidence that inhibition of apoptosis improves muscle function following blunt skeletal muscle injury. Ioannis Stratos, Zhengdong Li, Robert Rotter, Philipp Herlyn, Thomas Mittlmeier and Brigitte Vollmar. Apoptosis; Nov 2011. PDF